Perfect Grade is where you can really sink a lot of time, as those are at a larger scale (1:60 compared to MG's 1:100 or HG's 1:100 or 1:144) which will often have tons of small parts, screw assemblies, and electronics on the kits that have lights in them.
Sometimes those will have assemblies that use screws to hold particularly important bits in place. ) Master Grade kits are generally more complex, but with additional details and articulation they take longer to build, but offer greater range of detail. The High Grade kits are pretty solid for beginners reasonably nice detail and articulation, but not something that's going to take hours to build (unless, like me, you get anal-retentive about painting and inking all the panel lines. I've never found glue to be necessary on any of the kits I've built, though I've sometimes used it just to be extra sure certain parts aren't going to work loose. How well do they stay together without it? Just curious, what kit is it that you've got? (Only time I ran into some trouble with language was the Perfect Grade Zeta, which has several different varieties of screws for different parts, and the illustrations alone weren't clear enough fortunately I was able to use the magic of the internet to decipher enough to know what steps called for the small black screws versus the short silver ones or the long silver ones!) The directions are all in Japanese, however they're fully illustrated every step of the way and the language issue really isn't much of an issue. You can use glue to bond it together, to make it more stable, however. West Kalmar wrote:Jetan, you don't have to use glue for Gunpla, it snaps together. I really need to go through the stack, figure out what kits I really want to keep, and which ones I should look into finding new homes for, because fuck if I'll ever manage to build/display ALL of them. Most of the Gundam Wing suits in HG 1/100 scale from when I first discovered Gundam via Wing in the 90s. PG Strike Freedom (the only good thing to come out of Destiny!) Off the top of my head, I've got, either built or in the build stack: Definitely prefer MG or PG kits these days.
Granted, the lion's share of my purchases were north of a decade ago, when the exchange rate was such that I could buy MG kits without breaking the bank, and I've since gotten much pickier about what I buy.
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You know, without, like, taking a full inventory on what I've built and what's in the TBD stack, I'm not entirely sure what all I have.